Last week, we looked at the old meeting house on Cottage Road, the building for which Meeting House Hill is named. Our town meetings were held in that parish-owned building through 1834, when the parish members decided to tear the building down and build a new church on the same site. The meetings of the […]

In last week’s column, we mentioned the unfortunate fire in January of 1874 at John L. Parrott’s store on Ocean Stree. That fire also consumed the town hall that was located next door. Let’s take a look at some of the various meeting and town halls that South Portland has used over the years. When […]

Age Friendly South Portland, in partnership with the South Portland Public Works Department, is once again hosting the Sand Buckets for Seniors program this coming winter season. Like last season’s successful program that served more 250 residents throughout the city, seniors and individuals with mobility issues can reach out to the public works department to […]

One of South Portland’s lesser-known neighborhoods is South Portland Heights, and if you’ve ever been on Parrott Street you probably know how the neighborhood acquired that name. From the Heights, you get a good view of Portland. The “downtown” of South Portland Heights is the intersection of Ocean Street and Sawyer Street. The area was […]

There is such fascination with the idea of piggeries. It’s a topic that we hear a lot of questions about at the South Portland Historical Society. We have “the piggery” that has been in the news of late, the wooded land between the ends of Summit Street, Everett Avenue and Bowers Street. We have not […]

We are so grateful to Amanda Fickett, granddaughter of councilman Robert W. Fickett, Jr., who reached out and put us in touch with her dad, Bob Fickett III. Bob has been a wealth of information for us as we’ve started the process of documenting the Fickett family and their farms in South Portland. We’ve known […]